iommu/vt-d: Remove WO permissions on second-level paging entries (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47035
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 18 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Remove WO permissions on second-level paging entries When the first level page table is used for IOVA translation, it only supports Read-Only and Read-Write permissions. The Write-Only permission is not supported as the PRESENT bit (implying Read permission) should always set. When using second level, we still give separate permissions that allows WriteOnly which seems inconsistent and awkward. We want to have consistent behavior. After moving to 1st level, we don't want things to work sometimes, and break if we use 2nd level for the same mappings. Hence remove this configuration.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < 89bd620798704a8805fc9db0d71d7f812cf5b3d2 ; affected b802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < 25faff78138933244c678c7fc78f7c0340fa04a0 ; affected b802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < 66c24699f266ff310381a9552d3576eea8ad6e20 ; affected b802d070a52a1565b47daaa808872cfbd4a17b01 < eea53c5816889ee8b64544fa2e9311a81184ff9c
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.6 ; unaffected 0 < 5.6 ; unaffected 5.10.38 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.11.21 ≤ 5.11.* ; unaffected 5.12.4 ≤ 5.12.* ; unaffected 5.13 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD